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What 📔book are you reading right now?

Still mostly reading Oxford dictionaries
I read a holiday brochure yesterday!!!

I've been trying to read this book by Amy Chua: World on Fire (How exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred & global instability)
But it seems I mostly just keep reading on the net.
Well, I read like four books during holidays..
 
Just finnished the first three books of the Vampire Chronicals (awesome!) by Anne Rice and Ive started Ivanhoe by Sir Walter scott. I like it alot, its very..charming but there are MANY historical inaccurasies. For instance king Richard returns from his captivity about 6 months earlier in the book than he really did..along with little pevish things concerning dress and costums ect...I'm still enjoying it very much though
 
well what book am I reading right now. I will tell you. I am reading,
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix.
Although I admire the works of tolkien and his mind of crazy hobbit
adventures, I like harry potter alot more.
I personally like Harry Potter books more than the movies.
But I like the Lord of the Rings movies better than the books.
call me crazy and I am but its my opinion. :]
 
Kementari said:
Just finnished the first three books of the Vampire Chronicals (awesome!) by Anne Rice...
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Ooooo! Yea! I LOVE Anne Rice. Especially her vampire chronicles. Do you have any plans to read any more of her books? I could recommend some if you'd like. Ask me anything.

I'd be more than happy to talk to anyone about any Anne Rice novel. Well, almost, there are still a few I haven't gotten around to reading yet.

TTFN
 
Right now I'm reading "The Bachman Books" by Stephen King. Some of the stories (there are 4 short stories) were written even before Carrie. That was a long time ago. He wrote under the name Richard Bachman. The stories are:

~Rage...about a high school kid taking his class hostage for the day
~The Long Walk...about 100 kids walking until they either die or get shot, last one standing is the winner
~Roadwork...an evil tale about.. (haven't read it yet!)
~The Running Man...futuristic game show

And I have also picked up a copy of Shun Tsu's (sp?) "The Art of War". This manual for warfare is a timeless, classic prescription for waging and winning a war. It includes details on espioanage, financing an army, field tactics, leadership, baciscally everything involved in war.
 
Since the semester started I have read:

Night by Elie Wiesel
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Tales from a Child of the Enemy by Ursula Duba (poetry)
The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg
and
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

Guess which one of those was for leisure.

Right now I'm halfway through The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning, and earlier this week I devoured volume 7 of the Rurouni Kenshin manga. A whole month until volume 8 comes out! Aargh!
 
A book of tales by Oscar Wilde, one of my favorites writers.
Then I will read "Alexandros" serie of Massimo Valerio Manfredi
 
I read Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Ernest' in school last year and found it brilliant!
Right now i'm reading 'Blood Kin' by Ronald Kelly, gotta love vampires!!
Next up is the 'Great Hunt' by Robert Jordan.
 
Well I just have ended Angels and Demons of Dan Brown, Great Book.
But right now I am reading The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, 1092 pages long, @.@ It will take me about 5 months to finish it, specially because its in English and this is not my origin lenguage.
 
I have that Poe book! It's really spectacular! Right now I'm reading "A Time To Die"...its about the Attica prison revolution back in the '70's.
 
Right now? Nothing..lol

I just finished Monsterous Regiment by Terry Pratchett and am now rereading the Sil.
 
Oh, yay! I'm so glad this thread is back!

(MiThRaNdIr) said:
Well I just have ended Angels and Demons of Dan Brown, Great Book.
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I loved that book! I want to read Digital Fortress but my mom's friend borrowed her book and never gave it back.. I'm in denial that we probably won't ever get it back (we never see the lady anymore) because I don't want to buy it.

Treyar said:
I just finished Monsterous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
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I'm reading a Terry Pratchett, too. I've just finished reading Invisible Man for my English class.. I didn't enjoy it that much.
 
I'm probably 3/4ths of the way done with Stephen King's The Wastelands, third book in the Dark Tower series--I've refused to read King for a long time because I. Really. Hate. Horror. I have to hit 'mute' and turn around during previews for horror films--I got nightmares from the thirty second television spot for The Grudge. I just can't take it. But during one three hour car trip home my brother put in (without asking) the audiobook version of The Gunslinger, which I ended up loving. King is an excellent writer, I've just always been turned off by his label as a horror writer--and I'll probably never read any of his other novels unless I have been assured that they won't give me nightmares--but fortunately for me, the Dark Tower series is far more urban fantasy than anything else.

I also re-read Beauty by Robin McKinley the other night in one sitting, and during finals week I read volumes 3 and 4 of the Samurai Deeper Kyo manga--not as dear to my heart as Rurouni Kenshin (which I finally read volume 9 of), but a lot of fun nontheless.
 
I've finally got round to reading Orwell's 1984, so I'm on that at the moment. I've been busy at uni lately so haven't really had that much of a chance to read - the last two books I read were Dan Brown's Angels & Demons and Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment. Both good books, but Monstrous Regiment started to get just a bit too silly near the end!
 
Niirewen said:
I'm reading a Terry Pratchett, too. I've just finished reading Invisible Man for my English class.. I didn't enjoy it that much.
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well, try reading Theif of Time or Feet of Clay or Hogfather-they are soooo good!
 
THAT'S A GREAT BOOK! You've read A Game of Thrones, right? excellent excellent. I have yet to read a Storm of Swords...I have to find it in the library or something.
Lessee...I'm re-reading the Timothy Zahn Star Wars trilogy-Heir to the Empire, Dark force rising (I'm in the middle of that one) and the last Command.
 
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